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Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad

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145 points itkeman | 1 comments | 22 Jan 25 11:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

As a native Windows user who switched to macOS a few years back, one thing I never got over was the simplicity and usefulness of the old school Notepad app. This app aims to recreate that very same experience, cross-platform and easily installable as a PWA.

I've been using this for personal use for around 2 years and I figured it was time to share it with the world. Criticism, issues and PRs are welcome. Thanks!

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Levitating ◴[22 Jan 25 14:55 UTC] No.42793462[source]▶
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dspillett ◴[22 Jan 25 15:27 UTC] No.42793792[source]▶
Great. Another person complaining about something they can just choose not to use, criticising a pet project as if it is intended to be something that will change the world.

> This PWA will also never work on Firefox.

True. But as much as I like Firefox, that doesn't seem to me to be NotepadJs's doing.

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Levitating ◴[22 Jan 25 16:50 UTC] No.42794769[source]▶
> Great. Another person complaining about something they can just choose not to use, criticising a pet project as if it is intended to be something that will change the world.

That's fair. I am just upset with a general shift away from simple, accessible cross-platform GUI libraries to complicated web apps.

Literally any GUI toolkit has a textbox widget. You could make a cross-platform qt text editor in 100~ lines of Python.

> as much as I like Firefox, that doesn't seem to me to be NotepadJs's doing.

Well NotepadJS chose to create a PWA that can only be used in Chrome and Opera. Though like you said, it's just a pet project.

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1. dspillett ◴[23 Jan 25 02:04 UTC] No.42799829[source]▶
> Well NotepadJS chose to create a PWA that can only be used in Chrome and Opera.

Is there another way that I'm unaware of to conveniently edit arbitrary local files in a browser that has wider support (or anything upcoming that doesn't have much support yet)?